http://www.ncdoi.com/Media/Default.aspx Press Release en-us http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/050412.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of John A. Womack, Jr., 66, of 1100 North Rotary Drive, High Point; he is charged with four counts of mail fraud, two counts of making false statements to an insurance examiner, and five counts of making false entries into the accounts and books of an insurance business... NCDOI.com Press Release 346 Investigations Fri, 4 May 2012 10:15:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/050112.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Franklin Baxter Vaughn, 52, of 30654-C Tom Road, Albemarle; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and filing a false police report.... NCDOI.com Press Release 345 Investigations Tue, 1 May 2012 15:15:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/042712.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Julius Broady, 52, of 3972 NC Highway 46, Gaston; he is charged with... NCDOI.com Press Release 344 Investigations Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/042612.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of James David Hartsfield, 51, of 10000 Baileywick Road, Raleigh; he is charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 343 Investigations Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/042512.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Faylene F. Little, 56, of 2581 Thomas Langston Road, Winterville; she is charged with two counts of solicitation by a bail bondsman... NCDOI.com Press Release 342 Investigations Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/042412.asp RALEIGH -- Unintentional injuries kill more than 830,000 children annually worldwide and permanently disable even more, according to statistics from Safe Kids USA... NCDOI.com Press Release 341 Safe Kids Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:10:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/041812.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ernest Franklin Bibus II, 36, of 5417 Dona Road, Julian; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 340 Investigations Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:45:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/041212.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Barry Eugene Hicks, 53, of 7115 Old Greensboro Road, Chapel Hill; he is charged with one count each of kidnapping, felonious restraint, obtaining property by false pretense, and... NCDOI.com Press Release 339 Investigations Thu, 12 Apr 2012 14:15:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/040412b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today expressed his approval of a Board of Transportation committee recommendation to name the Smoky Park Bridge in Asheville in honor of Capt. Jeff Bowen... NCDOI.com Press Release 338 OSFM Wed, 4 Apr 2012 16:40:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/040412.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced today the newly appointed members of the Property and Casualty Agent Advisory Committee... NCDOI.com Press Release 337 NCDOI Wed, 4 Apr 2012 12:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/040212.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin asked North Carolina to clean out its medicine cabinets, and people throughout the state answered the call... NCDOI.com Press Release 336 Safe Kids Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:15:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/033012b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin would like to express his appreciation to the members of Legislative Research Committee on Property Insurance Rate Making for their diligent study in the area of homeowners insurance... NCDOI.com Press Release 335 NCDOI Fri, 30 Mar 2012 16:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/033012.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Harvey Griffin, 38, of 4500 Deborah Drive, Nashville; and Juanita Powell Phillips, 76, of 624 Walton Circle, Rocky Mount... NCDOI.com Press Release 334 Investigations Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:30:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/032612.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Antwanne Lashawn Woods, 30, of 913 S. English St., Greensboro; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and attempting to obtain property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 333 Investigations Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:25:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/032312b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Peter Jay Raposa, 44, of 224 Asheland Road, Ellenboro; he is charged with one count of insurance fraud... NCDOI.com Press Release 332 Investigations Mon, 23 Mar 2012 14:45:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/032312.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Judy Ann Mills, 51, of 425 Rockwood Lane, Tryon; she is charged with one count of insurance fraud... NCDOI.com Press Release 331 Investigations Mon, 23 Mar 2012 14:30:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/031912.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced that between March 18-24, 2012, Safe Kids North Carolina and Operation Medicine Drop will provide ... NCDOI.com Press Release 330 Safe Kids Mon, 19 Mar 2012 10:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/031512b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Marvin Angelo Ross, 48, of 11706 Five Cedars Road, Charlotte; he is charged with one count of insurance fraud and one count of attempting to obtain property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 329 Investigations Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:30:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/031512.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jessica Shamere Key, 29, of 2571 Hudson Poultry Road, Iron Station; she is charged with one count of insurance fraud... NCDOI.com Press Release 328 Investigations Thu, 15 Mar 2012 13:30:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/031412.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Perry Lamar Fain, 40, of 207 Pebblestone Drive, Durham; he is charged with two counts of obtaining property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 327 Investigations Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/031312.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Christona Shante Ross, 29, of 2571 Hudson Poultry Road, Iron Station... NCDOI.com Press Release 326 Investigations Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/030912.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today expressed his disappointment that a state Board of Transportation committee... NCDOI.com Press Release 325 OSFM Fri, 9 Mar 2012 16:55:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/030812.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Milton Scott Hooks... NCDOI.com Press Release 324 NCDOI Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/030512.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today is providing insurance tips for ... NCDOI.com Press Release 323 NCDOI Mon, 5 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/030212.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced that between March 18-24, 2012, Safe Kids North Carolina and Operation Medicine Drop will provide ... NCDOI.com Press Release 322 Safe Kids Fri, 2 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/030112.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today announced that the North Carolina Department of Insurance and Safe Kids North Carolina are partnering with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 321 Safe Kids Thu, 1 Mar 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/022912.asp RALEIGH -- Some property owners have seen an increase in their insurance premiums recently as a result of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 320 NCDOI Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/022812.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today issued a memorandum summarizing ... NCDOI.com Press Release 319 NCDOI Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/022712.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today announced that the 2012 North Carolina Residential Code will be available online on the ... NCDOI.com Press Release 318 NCDOI Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/022112.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that an insurance agent operating in Person County has pleaded guilty to six counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 317 Investigations Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/021712b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Erick Antonio Brinkley of Zebulon; he is charged with six counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 316 Investigations Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/021712.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced North Carolina has received approval from the U.S. Department of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 315 NCDOI Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/021512.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin, Barnardsville Fire Department and Jupiter Fire Department a re reminding North Carolinians to stay focused on fire safety and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 314 OSFM Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/021012b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Harold Thomas Hill, Howard Burnette Hill and Melvin Hill, all of Snow Hill. Each man was charged with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 313 Investigations Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/021012.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Paul Edward Brown of Greensboro, and Chancey Roscoe Vaughn of Gibsonville; each man was charged with... NCDOI.com Press Release 312 Investigations Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/020812.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Rhonda Lee Drewery of Wilmington; she is charged with embezzlement of more than ... NCDOI.com Press Release 311 Investigations Wed, 8 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/020612.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Dalia Soto Urbina of Fuquay-Varina; she is charged with 25 counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 310 Investigations Mon, 6 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/020212.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department has received the annual auto insurance rate filing from ... NCDOI.com Press Release 309 NCDOI Thu, 2 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/020112b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Tanisha Lozada, 25, of Concord; she is charged with one count of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 308 Investigations Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/020112.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is proud to announce that more than $10.4 million was returned to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 307 NCDOI Wed, 1 Feb 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/013112.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the members of the newly formed Life and Health Agent Advisory Committee (L&H AAC) as the group held its first meeting ... NCDOI.com Press Release 306 NCDOI Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/012312.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Randal Gene Bickham of Greensboro; he is charged with four counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 305 Investigations Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/011912b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Landon Noah Anthony "Rocky" Mabe, 25, of 4150 Breezewood Drive, Apt. 104, Wilmington... NCDOI.com Press Release 304 Investigations Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/011912a.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Joseph Michael Phelan, 42, of 9702 Aegean Court, Huntersville... NCDOI.com Press Release 303 Investigations Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/011812.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Gregory Steven Gurney, 49, of Wilmington. He is charged with six counts each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 302 Investigations Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/011712.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Ronnie Austin Riddle and and Thomasine Sheehan Riddle, both of Sylva. Ronnie Riddle was charged with 13 counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 301 Investigations Tue, 17 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/011112b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lisa Williams of Tabor City; she is charged with one count of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 300 Investigations Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/011112.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Kenneth Neil Price of Lumberton; he is charged with one count each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 299 Investigations Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2012/011012.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department of Insurance saved or recovered more than $42.2 million ... NCDOI.com Press Release 298 NCDOI Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/122211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lakasha Delshone Evans of Greensboro; she is charged with four counts of obtaining property by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 297 Investigations Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/122111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today announced a critical partnership between ... NCDOI.com Press Release 296 Safe Kids Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/122011b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin is reminding North Carolinians to stay focused on fire safety…especially when it comes to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 295 OSFM Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/122011.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today is proud to announce that ... NCDOI.com Press Release 294 OSFM Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/121911.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Peirson Freeman Lane of Swansboro; he is charged with four counts each of embezzlement by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 293 Investigations Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/121611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin is urging parents and caregivers to keep children safe this holiday season by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 292 Safe Kids Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/121211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has issued an order pertaining to dwelling fire and extended ... NCDOI.com Press Release 291 NCDOI Mon, 12 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/120711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin is launching the holiday season with strict "orders" for North Carolinians to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 290 OSFM Wed, 7 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/120111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants to remind North Carolina's 1.5 million Medicare beneficiaries of a very important deadline ... NCDOI.com Press Release 289 NCDOI Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/112211.asp RALEIGH -- As requested by Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials have extended the proof of loss deadline for flood victims of Hurricane Irene from Nov. 23 to Jan. 23, 2012 ... NCDOI.com Press Release 288 NCDOI Tue, 22 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/111811.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today sent a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency officials urging them to extend the Hurricane Irene Proof of Loss deadline beyond the current deadline of Nov. 23. ... NCDOI.com Press Release 287 NCDOI Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/111611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the indictment of James Rupard, 50, of Laurinburg; he was indicted by a Scotland County grand jury on three felony Class C counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 286 Investigations Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/111511.asp RALEIGH -- To address insurance issues stemming from Hurricane Irene, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin will activate a ... NCDOI.com Press Release 285 NCDOI Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/110711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Steve Anthony Harrison, 42, of 206 Pinegate Circle, Chapel Hill ... NCDOI.com Press Release 284 Investigations Mon, 7 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/110411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Kenneth Wayne Jenkins, 25, of Albemarle; he is charged with one count of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 283 Investigations Fri, 4 Nov 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/102411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Stephanie Jean Holanek of Wilmington; she is charged with four counts of insurance fraud, three counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 282 Investigations Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/102111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Gerald Lamont Warren of Pendleton; he is charged with one count of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 281 Investigations Fri, 21 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/102011.asp RALEIGH -- On Oct. 29, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Operation Medicine Drop, a grassroots partnership that includes Safe Kids North Carolina, will work with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation to provide the public with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 280 Safe Kids Thu, 20 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/101711.asp RALEIGH --Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Robert Anthony Poole of Durham; he is charged with one felony count of attempting to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 279 Investigations Mon, 17 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/101011.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin launched 2011 Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 9-15, by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 278 OSFM Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/100711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has established a series of Insurance Assistance Centers, where people with insurance questions or complaints can ... NCDOI.com Press Release 277 NCDOI Fri, 7 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/100611b.asp RALEIGH -- - Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of eight people accused of engaging in an insurance fraud scheme involving staged auto accidents ... NCDOI.com Press Release 276 Investigations Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/100611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin continues to work for North Carolinians amidst concerns that some residents are dissatisfied with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 275 NCDOI Thu, 6 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/100311b.asp RALEIGH -- - Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Roger King; he is charged with five counts of obtaining property by false pretense. The latest charges have been filed in addition to two counts of obtaining property by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 274 Investigations Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/100311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jared Johnson Steele, 34, of Fort Mill, S.C.; he is charged in Gaston County, N.C., with two counts each of obtaining property by false pretense and embezzlement by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 273 Investigations Mon, 3 Oct 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/092911.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Maria Carmen Gonzales, 35, of Butner; she is charged with one count each of identity theft, insurance fraud, and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 272 Investigations Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/092011.asp RALEIGH -- Child Passenger Safety Week is Sept. 19-25 and Safe Kids North Carolina is urging parents and caregivers to make every trip in a vehicle ... NCDOI.com Press Release 271 Safe Kids Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/091611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Brenda L. Battle of Rocky Mount; she is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 270 Investigations Fri, 16 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/091511.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Earl E. Gay of Leland; he is charged with 14 counts of embezzlement by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 269 Investigations Thu, 15 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/091411.asp RALEIGH -- - Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Laporcia Demeka Jones of Garner; she is charged with one count of misdemeanor soliciting by a bail bondsman ... NCDOI.com Press Release 268 Investigations Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/091311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Michael Kareem Hannon of Tryon; he is charged with 16 counts of insurance fraud, nine counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 267 Investigations Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/090811.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of seven people accused of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 266 Investigations Thu, 8 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/090611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced North Carolina's request to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to adjust the ... NCDOI.com Press Release 265 Investigations Tue, 6 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/090211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that homeowners whose insurance claims have been denied for damage caused by Hurricane Irene may be eligible for ... NCDOI.com Press Release 264 NCDOI Fri, 2 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/090111.asp RALEIGH -- Pursuant to North Carolina General Statute 58-2-46, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has issued Bulletin 11-B-09 to advise insurance companies and other entities licensed under the insurance law of North Carolina... NCDOI.com Press Release 263 NCDOI Thu, 1 Sep 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082611c.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin reminds North Carolinians that the Department of Insurance is here to assist people as they deal with insurance-related concerns after Hurricane Irene ... NCDOI.com Press Release 262 NCDOI Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082611b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of James Wesley Morrison of Kannapolis; he is charged with one count of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 261 Investigations Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Merlin Jerome "MJ" Smith of Elizabethtown; he is charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretense, 34 counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 260 Investigations Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082511c.asp RALEIGH -- In light of the state's declaration of emergency for parts of eastern North Carolina, Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today enacted a statutory provision to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 259 NCDOI Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082511b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Melissa Edwards Sanders of Albemarle; she is charged with 13 counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 258 Investigations Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082511.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Niki Deshawn Daniels of Clayton; he is charged with one count each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 258 Investigations Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin urges all North Carolinians to take simple but important steps to protect their families and investments as the threat of Hurricane Irene approaches ... NCDOI.com Press Release 257 NCDOI Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of David Sharlow of Sneads Ferry; he is charged with four counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 256 Investigations Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/082211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of six people accused of engaging in an insurance fraud scheme involving ... NCDOI.com Press Release 255 Investigations Mon, 22 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/081811.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Yolanda Smith of Elizabethtown; she is charged with one count each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 254 Investigations Thu, 18 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/081611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of four Wake County Jail trustees after a joint investigation by the Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Division and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 253 Investigations Tue, 16 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/081511.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Crystal Beasley Walker of Charlotte; she is charged with six counts of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 252 Investigations Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/081211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lee Shawn Johnson of Charlotte; he is charged with four counts each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 251 Investigations Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/081011.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Roger Leon King of Mills River; he is charged with two counts of obtaining property by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 250 Investigations Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/080911.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the launch of Health Insurance Smart NC, a consumer assistance program from the Department of Insurance. NCDOI.com Press Release 249 NCDOI Tue, 9 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/080411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Roland Dee Branch, 69, of 718 Pecan Ridge Circle, Kernersville; he is charged with 10 counts of obtaining property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 248 Investigations Thu, 4 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/080311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lakeia C. Freeman of Leland; she is charged with one count each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 247 Investigations Wed, 3 Aug 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/072711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin would like to congratulate the winners of four statewide awards from SHIIP, the ... NCDOI.com Press Release 246 SHIIP Wed, 27 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/072611b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Eric Proctor King, 35, and Leah Rasa Cunningham, 41, both of Southport ... they were arrested and charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 245 Investigations Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/072611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Carl Edward Howard, of Lincolnton; he is charged with one count of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 244 Investigations Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/072211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Joshua Rex Walston, 26, of 1567 Lanvale Road, Leland; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 243 Investigations Fri, 22 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/072111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Naquwana Tenia Davis-Robinson, 32, of 1400-G Quail Ridge Road, Raleigh; she is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense... NCDOI.com Press Release 242 Investigations Thu, 21 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/072011.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Nicole Annette Perkins of Williamston; she is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 241 Investigations Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/071311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin, chair of Safe Kids North Carolina, reminds parents and caregivers to never leave a child unattended in a vehicle, for any length of time ... NCDOI.com Press Release 240 Safe Kids Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/071211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jerry Robert Bell of Alexis; he is charged with one count of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 239 Investigations Tue, 12 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/070111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin warns North Carolinians about the dangers of consumer fireworks ... NCDOI.com Press Release 238 OSFM Fri, 1 Jul 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/062811b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Keion Danyel McPhaul of Red Springs; she is charged with three counts of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 237 Investigations Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/062811.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that SAFECO Insurance Company of America and American States Preferred Insurance Company have issued refunds totaling ... NCDOI.com Press Release 236 NCDOI Tue, 28 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/062711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Alicia Ann Wilson of Canton; she is charged with three counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 235 Investigations Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/062411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Gloria Scott Richardson, 56, of Enfield; she is charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretense and one count of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 234 Investigations Fri, 24 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/062111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Tammie Jo Ray of Franklin; she is charged with 14 counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 233 Investigations Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/061711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Karen Barbour of Raleigh; she is charged with one count of insurance fraud, one count of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 232 Investigations Fri, 17 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/061011.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ricky Roberson, 51, of Raleigh; he is charged with one count of soliciting by a bail bondsman and one count of paying ... NCDOI.com Press Release 231 Investigations Fri, 10 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/060711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the rate hearing originally scheduled for June 21, 2011, pertaining to the dwelling fire and extended coverage filing submitted by the North Carolina Rate Bureau has been rescheduled ... NCDOI.com Press Release 230 OSFM Tue, 7 Jun 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/053111.asp RALEIGH -- On average, 35 to 40 children across the country die from heat exposure in vehicles each year, and 2010, with 49 hyperthermia deaths, turned out to be one of the deadliest years on record for children two months to six-years-old... NCDOI.com Press Release 229 Safe Kids Tue, 31 May 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/052611b.asp RALEIGH -- Safe Kids North Carolina, a statewide coalition housed in the North Carolina Department of Insurance Office of State Fire Marshal, today announced a new pool safety program that aims to keep children ... NCDOI.com Press Release 228 Safe Kids Thu, 26 May 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/052611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Andre Dejuan Day of Roanoke Rapids; he is charged with one count each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 227 Investigations Thu, 26 May 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/052311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Billie Joy Duncan of Enfield; she is charged with one count of embezzlement by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 226 Investigations Mon, 23 May 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/050911.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today encourages members of the North Carolina General Assembly, as they take on the very difficult task of balancing the state budget, to remember the importance of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 225 OSFM Mon, 9 May 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/050211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Keith Arthur Vinson of Arden; he is charged with three counts of insurance fraud in violation of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 224 Investigations Mon, 2 May 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/042711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ildefonso Pantaleon of Whiteville; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 223 Investigations Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/042511.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Derrick Dwayne Hood, 21, of 409 S. Jackson St., Waxhaw; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 222 Investigations Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/042011.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that homeowners whose insurance claims have been denied for damage caused by the April 16 storms, tornadoes and flooding may be eligible for ... NCDOI.com Press Release 221 NCDOI Wed, 20 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/041811.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today is providing insurance tips for North Carolinians dealing with property damage after this weekend's devastating storms and tornadoes ... NCDOI.com Press Release 220 NCDOI Mon, 18 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/041111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced his opposition to proposals to do away with North Carolina's current auto ratemaking system ... NCDOI.com Press Release 219 NCDOI Mon, 11 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/040711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Dorchele Susie Brown of Lumberton; she is charged with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 218 Investigations Thu, 7 Apr 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/032811.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced today the newly appointed members of the ... NCDOI.com Press Release 217 NCDOI Mon, 28 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/032411b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Dennis Best, 42, of Concord; he is charged with two counts of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 216 Investigations Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/032411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the conviction and sentencing of Keiansha Fletcher, formerly of Charlotte; she pleaded guilty to 12 counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 215 Investigations Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/031811.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Tuan Anh Bui of Raleigh; he is charged with one count each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 214 Investigations Fri, 18 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/031611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants you to start your spring cleaning in your medicine cabinet. Operation Medicine Drop takes place March 20-26, 2011, to provide North Carolinians with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 213 Safe Kids Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/031011b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Nadine Outlaw Williams of Raleigh; she is charged with one count of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 212 Investigations Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/031011.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Alvaro Iriarte, Jr. of Conover; and Jason Andrew Rothenburg of Lincolnton ... NCDOI.com Press Release 211 Investigations Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/030711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Larry Delarence Atkinson of Clayton; he is charged with two counts each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 210 Investigations Mon, 7 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/030411b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that after a two-day jury trial in Granville County, a couple has been found guilty and sentenced in an insurance fraud scheme to steal an elderly woman's life savings ... NCDOI.com Press Release 209 Investigations Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/030411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Yolanda Mason Smith and and Chadwick F. Mason, both of Elizabethtown, N.C. Smith is charged with two counts each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 208 Investigations Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/030311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Kim Marie Waln of Fleetwood; she is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 207 Investigations Thu, 3 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/030111b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Susan Kaye Glover of Wilson; she is charged with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 206 Investigations Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/030111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Alexander Chavis, Jr. of Lumberton; he is charged with two counts of sexual activity by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 205 Investigations Tue, 1 Mar 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/022111b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Russell Edward Alphin of LaGrange; he is charged with three counts each of identity theft and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 204 Investigations Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/022111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today signed a notice of hearing in the dwelling fire and extended coverage rate case, in which the North Carolina Rate Bureau requested an overall statewide average increase of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 203 NCDOI Mon, 21 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/021711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Eric Stewart Turner of Thomasville; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud, fraudulently burning a dwelling and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 202 Investigations Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/021511b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin and the North Carolina Office of State Fire Marshal are joining a public push to keep children ... NCDOI.com Press Release 201 OSFM Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/021511.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the indictment and arrest of police detective Alan Dale Pope of Thomasville; he is charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 200 Investigations Tue, 15 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/020911b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that William Richard McCutcheon of Greensboro has pleaded no contest to 20 charges including ... NCDOI.com Press Release 199 Investigations Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/020911.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Anthony Martin Hernandez of Morehead City; he is charged with one count of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 198 Investigations Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/020211b.asp RALEIGH -- January 31, 2011, marked the end of the public comment period pertaining to the dwelling fire and extended rate filing received by the Department of Insurance on Jan. 4 ... NCDOI.com Press Release 197 NCDOI Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/020211.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department has received the annual auto insurance rate filing from the North Carolina Rate Bureau ... NCDOI.com Press Release 196 NCDOI Wed, 2 Feb 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/013111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today released the 2010 statistics for the Department of Insurance's Consumer Services, Agent Services, Healthcare Review, Market Regulation, Criminal Investigations and SHIIP Divisions .... NCDOI.com Press Release 195 NCDOI Mon, 31 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/012611.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Yolanda Mason Smith of Elizabethtown; she is charged with one count of each of attempting to obtain property by false pretense and obstruction of justice. Warrants have been issued for her husband, Merlin "Jerome" Smith, also of Elizabethtown, for two counts of .... NCDOI.com Press Release 194 Investigations Wed, 26 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/012511b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced a record-breaking year for monetary restitution and recoveries for ... NCDOI.com Press Release 193 NCDOI Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/012511.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of 10 individuals involved in an alleged staged auto accident ring ... NCDOI.com Press Release 192 Investigations Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/012111.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced a settlement that orders the North Carolina Insurance Underwriting Association, also known as the Beach Plan, to reverse the distribution of more than $16 million ... NCDOI.com Press Release 191 NCDOI Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/011311.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Shawn Elizabeth Eubank of Roseboro. She is charged with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 190 Investigations Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/010711.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Randy King and Carolyn Killens King of Lumberton. Both are charged with willfully failing ... NCDOI.com Press Release 189 Investigations Fri, 7 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2011/010411.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department has received the dwelling fire and extended coverage rate filing from the North Carolina Rate Bureau ... NCDOI.com Press Release 188 NCDOI Tue, 4 Jan 2011 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/122310.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Douglas Lee Borsum, Sr. of Holly Springs. He is charged with 13 counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 187 Investigations Thu, 23 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/120910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that Kelly Ransdell, deputy director of the Department's Prevention, Programs and Grants Division and director of Safe Kids North Carolina, has been awarded the Governor's Award for Excellence for Public Service ... NCDOI.com Press Release 186 Safe Kids Thu, 9 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/120710.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Kimberly Burch Jones of Mount Olive. She is charged with one count of filing false insurance claims ... NCDOI.com Press Release 185 Investigations Tue, 7 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/120110b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants to remind North Carolinians that starting this week, approximately 215,000 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina individual policyholders will begin receiving ... NCDOI.com Press Release 184 NCDOI Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/120110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Bernd Barron Hess of High Point. NCDOI.com Press Release 183 Investigations Wed, 1 Dec 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/112410.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Inetta Johnson Strudwick of Durham. She is charged with one count each of insurance fraud, attempting to obtain ... NCDOI.com Press Release 182 Investigations Wed, 24 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/111910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Tonja Jordan Austin of Cary. She is charged with two counts of failing to pay group health insurance premiums and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 181 Investigations Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/111810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Heather Lynn Locklear of Lumberton and Demetrus Locklear of Pembroke. Both were charged with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 180 Investigations Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/111210c.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Eleanor Ford Boyette of Washington. She was charged with one count of embezzlement ... NCDOI.com Press Release 179 Investigations Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/111210B.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Frances Moore of Moravian Falls. An insurance agent and owner and operator of Fran Moore Allstate Agency, Moore is charged with 14 counts of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 178 Investigations Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/111210.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants to remind the state's 1.5 million Medicare recipients that now is the time to review ... NCDOI.com Press Release 177 SHIIP Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/110410.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Richard David Stone, 44, of 110 Bancroft Brook Drive ... NCDOI.com Press Release 176 Investigations Thu, 4 Nov 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/102910.asp RALEIGH -- Halloween is one of the most exciting nights of the year for many kids, but it can also be one of the most dangerous ... NCDOI.com Press Release 175 Safe Kids Fri, 29 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/102810b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Amy Clifton Smith ... of Greensboro. She is charged with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 174 Investigations Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/102810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Dawn Hathcock Morris ... of Albemarle, for an array of charges connected to alleged exploitation of her grandmother ... NCDOI.com Press Release 173 Investigations Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/102710.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the settlement of the workers compensation rate filings ... NCDOI.com Press Release 172 NCDOI Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/101810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of a Mecklenburg County insurance adjuster for alleged embezzlement ... NCDOI.com Press Release 171 Investigations Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/101510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of a pair of sisters for alleged insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 170 Investigations Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/101210.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Judy W. Allen of Louisburg; she is charged with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 169 Investigations Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/101110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Harry Leo Edwards of Kinston; he was charged with two counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 168 Investigations Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/100510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin is pleased to announce Tri-Community Volunteer Fire Department has been awarded ... NCDOI.com Press Release 167 OSFM Tue, 5 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/100410b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin is pleased to announce that Tim Bradley, Senior Deputy Commissioner and Assistant State Fire Marshal, has been named ... NCDOI.com Press Release 166 OSFM Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/100410.asp RALEIGH -- During Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 3-9, kids will learn how to "Be a Fire Buster" at a special exhibit at the Cleveland County Fair ... NCDOI.com Press Release 165 OSFM Mon, 4 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/100110b.asp RALEIGH -- "Smoke Alarms: A Sound You Can Live With!" is the theme of this year's Fire Prevention Week, Oct. 3-9. Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin urges ... NCDOI.com Press Release 164 OSFM Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/100110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of David Ray Hastings of Greensboro; he was charged with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 163 Investigations Fri, 1 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092910b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin is encouraged to see early success after the recent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 162 NCDOI Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of a Martin County automobile repair shop owner and one of his customers for alleged insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 161 Investigations Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092810b.asp RALEIGH -- On Sept. 23, the next round of provisions of the federal health care reform bill, also called the Affordable Care Act, will go into effect. Many of these provisions provide ... NCDOI.com Press Release 160 NCDOI Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Keiansha Melissa Fletcher, formerly of Charlotte; she was charged with 13 counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 159 NCDOI Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092210c.asp RALEIGH -- On Sept. 23, the next round of provisions of the federal health care reform bill, also called the Affordable Care Act, will go into effect. Many of these provisions provide ... NCDOI.com Press Release 158 NCDOI Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092210b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Godfrey Gray Bell, Sr., of Greenville. He was arrested in Pitt County and charged with one count of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 157 Investigations Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092210.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of three people who Department of Insurance criminal investigators allege were involved in a staged traffic accident ... NCDOI.com Press Release 156 Investigations Wed, 22 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/092010.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina President and CEO Brad Wilson today announced a decision on individual policyholder rates for BCBSNC customers ... NCDOI.com Press Release 155 NCDOI Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/091710.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin, the Raleigh Fire Department and students from North Carolina State University and Shaw University are teaming up to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 154 OSFM Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/091610.asp RALEIGH -- Child Passenger Safety Week is Sept. 19-25, and Safe Kids North Carolina is urging parents and caregivers to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 153 Safe Kids Thu, 16 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/091510b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Timothy Michael Moore of Fayetteville on four counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 152 Investigations Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/091510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that 1,803 Allstate Insurance Company policy holders in North Carolina will receive refunds ... NCDOI.com Press Release 151 NCDOI Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/090810b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has received the 2010 workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau, the organization that ... NCDOI.com Press Release 150 NCDOI Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/090810.asp RALEIGH -- September has been proclaimed Campus Fire Safety Month in North Carolina, and Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin is reminding all college and university communities ... NCDOI.com Press Release 149 OSFM Wed, 8 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/090110.asp RALEIGH -- Weather forecasts indicate that Hurricane Earl is on a path that could impact North Carolina this week. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin is reminding all North Carolinians to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 148 NCDOI Wed, 1 Sep 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/082010.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Virgil Lawrence Manuel of Graham. Manuel was charged with three counts of terminating a group health insurance plan without ... NCDOI.com Press Release 147 Investigations Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/081710.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the N.C. Department of Insurance has been awarded $1 million in federal funding to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 146 NCDOI Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/081610.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of three individuals allegedly involved in a fraudulent stolen vehicle scheme meant to deceive ... NCDOI.com Press Release 145 Investigations Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/072910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the winners of four statewide awards from the Department's Seniors' Health Insurance Information Program, SHIIP, Division. They are ... NCDOI.com Press Release 144 SHIIP Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/072810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Jacqueline Leigh Cherry and her mother Rebecca Cherry Stilley, both of Winterville. They were charged with insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 143 Investigations Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/072610.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Michael Devon McLean of Lumberton; he is charged with one count of embezzlement ... NCDOI.com Press Release 142 Investigations Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/072310b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announces today the election of the new chairman of the North Carolina Home Inspector Licensure Board ... NCDOI.com Press Release 141 NCDOI Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/072310.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the conviction of Robert Gene Killens of Lumberton. He was found guilty of one count of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 140 Investigations Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/072210.asp RALEIGH -- After hearing reports that a 15-month-old Wayne County child was critically injured yesterday when her father was moving his vehicle ... NCDOI.com Press Release 139 NCDOI Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/072110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Edward Charles Harris of Goldsboro. A licensed insurance agent, Harris was charged with five counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 138 Investigations Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/071610d.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Maria Guadalupe Flores of Raleigh; she was charged with one count of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 137 Investigations Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/071610c.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Alesia Burnette of Durham on five counts of insurance fraud. Warrants have also been issued for two others still at large ... NCDOI.com Press Release 136 Investigations Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/071610b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Paul Joseph Stafford of Raleigh; he was charged with one count of willful termination of a group health plan ... NCDOI.com Press Release 135 Investigations Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/071610.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lakeitha Hinton Jones of Durham; she was charged with one count of attempted obtaining property by false pretense and two counts each of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 134 Investigations Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/071410.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin and DHHS Secretary Lanier Cansler today announced that Senate Bill 1193 has been signed by Governor Bev Perdue ... NCDOI.com Press Release 133 NCDOI Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/071310.asp RALEIGH -- It is shaping up to be a particularly deadly year for children dying from hyperthermia in hot cars. On average, 35 to 40 children across the country die ... NCDOI.com Press Release 132 Safe Kids Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/063010.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of four people for their alleged involvement in a series of automobile insurance fraud schemes ... NCDOI.com Press Release 131 Investigations Wed, 30 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/062810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin reminds all North Carolinians to put safety first this Fourth of July holiday weekend ... NCDOI.com Press Release 130 OSFM Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/062510b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Annette J. Porter of Raleigh; she was charged with one count of obtaining property by false pretense ... NCDOI.com Press Release 129 Investigations Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/062510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announces today that the Office of State Fire Marshal has the authority to issue one-time, temporary pyrotechnic licenses ... NCDOI.com Press Release 128 OSFM Fri, 25 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/062410.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lori Bunce Herring of Fayetteville; she was charged with one count each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense ... NCDOI.com Press Release 127 Investigations Thu, 24 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/062310.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that he has ordered a schedule of mitigation credits for qualifying homeowners insurance policies in North Carolina's beach and coastal territories ... NCDOI.com Press Release 126 NCDOI Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/061110b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Wycliffe Deneen-Niko Harrigan of Carrboro ... NCDOI.com Press Release 125 Investigations Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/061110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Jamie Rebecca Taylor and Anthony Taylor, both of Goldsboro... NCDOI.com Press Release 124 Investigations Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/060110b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Tina Renee Cherry ... of Williamston; she was charged with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 123 Investigations Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/060110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Angie Lee Jones ... of Enfield; she was charged with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 122 Investigations Tue, 1 Jun 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/052810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Felicia Louis Rocchi ... of Hillsborough; she is charged with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 121 Investigations Fri, 28 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/052610.asp RALEIGH -- This week is national Hurricane Preparedness Week, and next week marks the beginning ... NCDOI.com Press Release 120 NCDOI Wed, 26 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/051410.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 119 Investigations Fri, 14 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/051310.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of fire bail bondsmen and the continued search for ... NCDOI.com Press Release 118 Investigations Thu, 13 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/050710.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department's SHIIP program is available to help some 23,000 N.C. Medicare recipients who may be affected ... NCDOI.com Press Release 117 SHIIP Fri, 7 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/050310.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants to remind North Carolinians that starting this week, approximately one million policyholders will begin receiving ... NCDOI.com Press Release 116 NCDOI Mon, 3 May 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/042810b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department of Insurance has received the North Carolina Rate Bureau's filing to establish ... NCDOI.com Press Release 115 NCDOI Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/042810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Sheila Pittman Dickens of Rocky Mount on one count each of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 114 Investigations Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/042110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Craig Genard Jenkins ... of Raleigh ... for submitting 132 bogus ... NCDOI.com Press Release 113 Investigations Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/041510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Candice Dawn Barrington of Laurinburg, charged with one count each of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 112 Investigations Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/033110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the schedule of SHIIP events across the state aimed at helping the 24,000 ... NCDOI.com Press Release 111 SHIIP Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/033010.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced his participation in the national discussion surrounding the need for ... NCDOI.com Press Release 110 NCDOI Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/032510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Leonard Gerald Thompson of Fayetteville. He was arrested Tuesday and charged with 30 counts of performing fire safety inspections ... NCDOI.com Press Release 109 Investigations Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/031910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that North Carolina drivers pay an average of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 108 NCDOI Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/031010b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department's SHIIP program is available to help some 24,000 N.C. Medicare recipients who are affected by ... NCDOI.com Press Release 107 SHIIP Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/031010.asp RALEIGH -- Poisoning from prescription medications is on the rise in North Carolina ... NCDOI.com Press Release 106 Safe Kids Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/030910c.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Leslie Michelle Nowell of Wilson for allegedly staging a robbery in an attempt to receive insurance money ... NCDOI.com Press Release 105 Investigations Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/030910b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Julia A. Clay of Roxboro; she was charged with insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 104 Investigations Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/030910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today released the 2009 statistics for the Department of Insurance's ... NCDOI.com Press Release 103 NCDOI Tue, 9 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/030810.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the launching of a mobile version of the N.C. Department of Insurance's Web site ... NCDOI.com Press Release 102 NCDOI Mon, 8 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/030510b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of David Ray Cummings of Lumberton on one count each of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 101 Investigations Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/030510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department's SHIIP program is available to help some 24,000 N.C. Medicare recipients who may be affected ... NCDOI.com Press Release 100 SHIIP Fri, 5 Mar 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/022210.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announces that the Office of State Fire Marshal is partnering with ... NCDOI.com Press Release 99 OSFM Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/021110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 98 Investigations Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/021010.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the sentencing of Terri Lynn Spence of Emerald Isle, who pleaded guilty to ... NCDOI.com Press Release 97 Investigations Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/020110b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today announced that Jonathan Sowers, a training specialist in the Department's Fire and Rescue Training and Inspections Division ... NCDOI.com Press Release 96 OSFM Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/020110.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announces that starting today all pyrotechnic operators in North Carolina must obtain ... NCDOI.com Press Release 95 OSFM Mon, 1 Feb 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012910.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin urges North Carolina families to follow these safety tips to stay safe during and after the upcoming winter storm ... NCDOI.com Press Release 94 NCDOI Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012510c.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Aaron Pittman of Louisburg, and his wife, Mildred Diane Dew of Rocky Mount. Both are accused of an elaborate scheme to steal the life savings of an elderly woman ... NCDOI.com Press Release 93 Investigations Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012510b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Frank P. D'Alonzo for allegedly terminating, without notice, group health insurance for the employees of Impact Athletics in Cary ... NCDOI.com Press Release 92 Investigations Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/012510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Gayland Anthony Oliver of Greensboro, on charges of submitting false claims to his insurance company ... NCDOI.com Press Release 91 Investigations Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/010510b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the federal subsidy program for COBRA coverage for involuntarily terminated workers has been extended ... NCDOI.com Press Release 90 NCDOI Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2010/010510.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Sheila Carol Williams. Department investigators allege that ... Williams used her position at N.C. Farm Bureau to steal ... NCDOI.com Press Release 89 Investigations Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/123109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin announces that beginning Jan. 1, N.C. landlords are required by law to install ... NCDOI.com Press Release 88 OSFM Thu, 31 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121709b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Lamar Olin White, last known address is Raleigh, who filed a fraudulent insurance claim with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company ... NCDOI.com Press Release 87 Investigations Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121709.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Wendy C. McGuire, 31, 463 Union Grove Church Road, Fremont ... NCDOI.com Press Release 86 Investigations Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121509b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the sentencing of the last defendant in an auto insurance fraud ring that spanned four years ... NCDOI.com Press Release 85 Investigations Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/121509.asp RALEIGH -- Emergency rooms see approximately 217,000 toy-related injuries each year. But the good news is ... NCDOI.com Press Release 84 Safe Kids Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/120109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ashley Carrol Waddell of Greensboro on felony embezzlement and larceny charges ... NCDOI.com Press Release 83 Investigations Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/111809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the appointment of five new members ... NCDOI.com Press Release 82 NCDOI Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/111709.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants to remind the state's 1.3 million Medicare recipients ... NCDOI.com Press Release 81 SHIIP Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/110409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced additional indictments in the criminal investigation of Charles Mark Hall of Smithfield ... NCDOI.com Press Release 80 Investigations Wed, 4 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/110209b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today issued an update on the criminal investigations case involving insurance agent Jennifer Hughes Puckett ... NCDOI.com Press Release 79 Investigations Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/110209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the settlement of the workers compensation rate filings ... NCDOI.com Press Release 78 NCDOI Mon, 2 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/102609.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Wanda Nichols Covington and her brother, Thomas Nichols Jr., both of Lewiston Woodville. According to the arrest warrant, Covington is accused of filing false paperwork Progressive Insurance Company ... NCDOI.com Press Release 77 Investigations Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/102209b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Kimberly Joyce Smithson of Garner on charges of larceny and breaking and entering, filing a false report, insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretenses ... NCDOI.com Press Release 76 Investigations Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/102209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Joseph Preston Alligood of Elizabeth City. Alligood, an independent insurance agent, is charged with 13 counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent ... NCDOI.com Press Release 75 Investigations Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/101509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of three more people, which brings the total number of arrests in the Rowland Staged Accident Ring to seven ... NCDOI.com Press Release 74 Investigations Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/100709.asp RALEIGH -- More than 100 seniors pounded the pavement today at a relay event in Raleigh to kickoff a statewide enrollment campaign for Medicare's "Extra Help" low-income subsidy ... NCDOI.com Press Release 73 SHIIP Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/100109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin urges North Carolinians to learn fire safety skills during Fire Prevention Week 2009 ... NCDOI.com Press Release 72 OSFM Thu, 1 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Earl Harvey Scott, Holly Springs. According to the arrest warrants, Scott lied to his insurance companies and claimed a total of $33,971.91 in fraudulent lightening damage ... NCDOI.com Press Release 71 Investigations Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092209b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Charles Mark Hall, Smithfield, on charges of embezzlement by an insurance agent and exploiting disabled or elder trust ... NCDOI.com Press Release 70 Investigations Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Pace Airlines CEO William Charles Rodgers, Liberty, Mo. Rodgers is charged with one count of willful failure to pay group health insurance premiums ... NCDOI.com Press Release 69 Investigations Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092109b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Heidi Michelle Flaherty of Advance. According to the arrest warrant, Flaherty filed a fraudulent insurance claim stating that she lost two diamond rings ... NCDOI.com Press Release 68 Investigations Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/092109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jackie Lynn Braddy of Scotland Neck. According to the arrest warrant, Braddy filed a fraudulent insurance claim stating that his riding lawn mower had been stolen ... NCDOI.com Press Release 67 Investigations Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/091409b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of James William Rupard of Laurinburg, ... on charges he sold fake annuities to three victims ... NCDOI.com Press Release 66 Investigations Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/091409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Antonio Oneal Thorpe of Oxford, on charges of obtaining property by false pretense and unlicensed bail bonding. ... NCDOI.com Press Release 65 Investigations Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/090909.asp RALEIGH -- As many as 80 percent of all car seats are improperly installed ... This is especially scary because motor vehicle crashes are the No. 1 killer of children ... NCDOI.com Press Release 64 Safe Kids Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/090209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the receipt of the workers compensation rate filings from the North Carolina Rate Bureau ... NCDOI.com Press Release 63 NCDOI Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/090109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Doranne Phillips Flynn, 53, of Southport. Flynn is charged with one count of willful failure to pay group insurance, a class H felony ... NCDOI.com Press Release 62 Investigations Tue, 1 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082409b.asp RALEIGH -- Up to 25 percent of the more than 14 million unintentional injuries to children each year happen in and around schools ... NCDOI.com Press Release 61 Safe Kids Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Travis Lamond Draughn of Tarboro and Noah Freeman of Norfolk, Va. on charges of insurance fraud. Freeman and Draughn are father and son ... NCDOI.com Press Release 60 Investigations Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Mamie L. Jackson and Delton L. Dorty, both of Durham ... accused of staging auto accidents ... an arrest warrant also has been issued for the arrest of Jackson's daughter ... NCDOI.com Press Release 59 Investigations Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/082009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Shamea V. Hayes of Powellsville. Hayes is charged with one count of insurance fraud.... NCDOI.com Press Release 58 Investigations Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of ... four Rowland residents ... all involved in staging traffic crashes .... NCDOI.com Press Release 57 Investigations Tue, 18 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081409b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Chinell Jray Blount ... of Durham ... on charges of insurance fraud and ... NCDOI.com Press Release 56 Investigations Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced today that just seven days after the General Assembly passed HB 1305, otherwise known as the Beach Plan Reform Bill, AAA Carolinas has announced ... NCDOI.com Press Release 55 NCDOI Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/081009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the distribution of $6.5 million to 661 former members of the Phoenix Fund, Inc... NCDOI.com Press Release 54 NCDOI Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/080509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the conviction of Vonna Johnson, Morganton, on seven counts of insurance fraud ... NCDOI.com Press Release 53 Investigations Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/073109b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of John Terry Leavelle, 30, Thomasville. According to Department investigators ... Leavelle visited 30 doctors for prescriptions ... NCDOI.com Press Release 52 Investigations Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/073109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the winners of four statewide awards from the Department's Seniors' Health Insurance Information Program, SHIIP, Division .... NCDOI.com Press Release 51 SHIIP Fri, 31 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/072409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin wants North Carolinians to be aware of a class-action settlement that some 304,995 consumers across the state may qualify for ... NCDOI.com Press Release 50 NCDOI Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/072309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the sentencing of six in an auto insurance fraud ring that spanned four years ... NCDOI.com Press Release 49 NCDOI Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/071509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today signed a settlement with the North Carolina Rate Bureau that will roll back private passenger auto insurance rates to just under 2006 levels ... NCDOI.com Press Release 48 NCDOI Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/070909.asp RALEIGH -- Eighteen children have died in hot cars so far this year, most in the Southeast ... NCDOI.com Press Release 47 Safe Kids Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/070209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of John Fitzgerald Haynes ... of Bessemer City ... who was charged with insurance fraud and one count of altering serial numbers. NCDOI.com Press Release 46 Investigations Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/062509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Massey Ray Bowser, 25, ... in what is commonly called an "owner give-up" ... NCDOI.com Press Release 45 Investigations Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/062409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Rhyan Neil Hammonds ... Hammonds filed a false disability claim through his employer ... NCDOI.com Press Release 44 Investigations Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/061809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that Senate Bill 957 was signed into law by the Governor ... NCDOI.com Press Release 43 Investigations Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/060909.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Ashley C. Waddell ... According to the investigation, Waddell ... took $89,314.52 in insurance claims payments ... NCDOI.com Press Release 42 Investigations Tue, 9 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/060309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Rodique Androsly Quick ... after a year of evading investigators ... NCDOI.com Press Release 41 Investigations Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/052709.asp RALEIGH -- Hurricane season is just around the corner - it starts June 1 and lasts until Nov. 30 - and that's why ... NCDOI.com Press Release 40 NCDOI Wed, 27 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/052109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that Michael A. Howell ... has pleaded guilty to 25 counts of embezzlement by an insurance agent. Howell is also charged with first degree murder ... NCDOI.com Press Release 39 Investigations Thu, 21 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/052009.asp RALEIGH -- Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of swim season, but this year there's been a change to your local pool ... NCDOI.com Press Release 38 Safe Kids Wed, 20 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/051809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jessica Brandy Hinnant, 28, 612 S. First St., Smithfield ... NCDOI.com Press Release 37 Investigations Mon, 18 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/051509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Stanley J. Davis, Jr., 40, 367 Joe Brown Road, Woodland, on two counts of ... NCDOI.com Press Release 36 Investigations Fri, 15 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/051309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced Carol Marklew Overby, 52, 6371 N.C. Highway 119 N., Leasburg ... NCDOI.com Press Release 35 Investigations Wed, 13 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/050409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrests of Merlin Jerome Smith, 41, Yolanda Smith, 40, and Chadwick Mason, 21, all of 154 Lakeview Dr., Elizabethtown ... NCDOI.com Press Release 34 Investigations Mon, 4 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/050109.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Sherri Efrid, 45, 11174 Mooresville Road, Davidson. According to the investigation ... NCDOI.com Press Release 33 Investigations Fri, 1 May 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/043009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of William Anthony Cominos Jr., 46, 1105 Pinewood Dr., Raleigh ... NCDOI.com Press Release 32 Investigations Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/042309b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Latosha Nicole Smith, 22, 2617 Jefferson Dr., Greenville. Smith turned herself in ... NCDOI.com Press Release 31 Investigations Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/042309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today reminds members of the military across North Carolina that they may be entitled to recover compensation stemming ... NCDOI.com Press Release 30 NCDOI Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/042209b.asp RALEIGH -- More than 6 million children were injured unintentionally in the United States in 2007. National Safe Kids Week ... NCDOI.com Press Release 29 Safe Kids Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/042209.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Philip Raulerson, 35, 1241 Edward Aims Road, Jamesville ... NCDOI.com Press Release 28 Investigations Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/041709.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and State Fire Marshal Wayne Goodwin today urged House lawmakers to pass Senate Bill 652, Prohibit Sale of Novelty Lighters ... NCDOI.com Press Release 27 OSFM Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/041509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department of Insurance has filed an appeal of the Wake County Superior Court order ... NCDOI.com Press Release 26 NCDOI Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/040909.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announces the conviction and sentencing of Kenneth Rick Morrow, 43, 4625 Nix Creek Rd ... NCDOI.com Press Release 25 Investigations Thu, 9 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/040809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Robert Gene Killens, 51, 1005 N. Elm St., Lumberton. According to the investigation ... NCDOI.com Press Release 24 Investigations Wed, 8 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/040109b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced his support of Senate Bill 957, which qualifies laid-off employees of small businesses for federal benefits ... NCDOI.com Press Release 23 NCDOI Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/040109.asp RALEIGH -- - Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jennifer Hughes Puckett, 30, 163 Woodside Dr., Rockingham, on 10 charges of embezzlement ... NCDOI.com Press Release 22 Investigations Wed, 1 Apr 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/033009.asp RALEIGH -- - Officials at the Department of Insurance today released a notice of hearing in the 2009 auto insurance rate case ... NCDOI.com Press Release 21 NCDOI Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/032709.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of two bail bondsmen, R. Vinson Smith, 43, 807 Alexander St., Statesville ... NCDOI.com Press Release 20 Investigations Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/032409b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Paquito Rafael Brown, 36, 408 North Redding St., Gastonia ... NCDOI.com Press Release 19 Investigations Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/032409.asp RALEIGH -- Empire Chevrolet of Wilkesboro has been named Safe Kids North Carolina Outstanding Partner of the Year ... NCDOI.com Press Release 18 Safe Kids Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/032309b.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today released the 2008 statistics for the Department of Insurance's Consumer Services Division ... NCDOI.com Press Release 17 NCDOI Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/032309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Melissa Swain Parrish, 36, 8423 Meadow View Lane, Bahama ... NCDOI.com Press Release 16 Investigations Mon, 23 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/031909.asp RALEIGH -- Safe Kids North Carolina State Chair and N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announces that the Safe Kids Wake County Coalition ... NCDOI.com Press Release 15 Safe Kids Thu, 19 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/031809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Jonathan Christian Jones, 39, 803 South Boots St., Marion, Ind ... NCDOI.com Press Release 14 Investigations Wed, 18 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/031109.asp RALEIGH -- During National Poison Prevention Week, Insurance Commissioner and Safe Kids North Carolina Chair Wayne Goodwin reminds parents that kids are more likely ... NCDOI.com Press Release 13 Safe Kids Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/031009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Pam S. Bollinger, 44, 1315 King Road, Salisbury ... NCDOI.com Press Release 12 Investigations Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/030309.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner and Safe Kids N.C. Chair Wayne Goodwin reminds North Carolinians the upcoming time change is the best time to make a change that could save lives ... NCDOI.com Press Release 11 Safe Kids Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/022609.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Latrisha Yvette Godley, 31, 2332 Springhill Road, Greenville ... NCDOI.com Press Release 10 Investigations Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/022409.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Keith Devon Acklin, 28, 1017 W. 4th St., Greenville ... NCDOI.com Press Release 9 Investigations Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/021709.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Brian Joseph Eavens, 45, 4500 Central Ave. Unit C, Charlotte ... NCDOI.com Press Release 8 Investigations Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/021009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Michael Johnson, 48, whose last known address was 8415 Redding Ave., Charlotte ... NCDOI.com Press Release 7 Investigations Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/021009.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that the Department has received the annual auto insurance rate filing from the North Carolina Rate Bureau ... NCDOI.com Press Release 6 NCDOI Mon, 9 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/020609.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced that Michael A. Howell, 41, 5405 Fredrick St., Indian Trial, has been charged with 25 counts of embezzlement ... NCDOI.com Press Release 5 Investigations Fri, 6 Feb 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/012909.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the arrest of Teeketa Graham Davis, 48, 2577 Banner Whitehead Rd., Sophia ... NCDOI.com Press Release 4 Investigations Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/012809.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced today the arrest of an Edgecombe County man ... NCDOI.com Press Release 3 Investigations Wed, 28 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/012609.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announces the arrest of another Eastern North Carolina resident for his part in what Department of Insurance of investigators ... NCDOI.com Press Release 2 Investigations Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EST http://www.ncdoi.com/media/news2/year/2009/011509.asp RALEIGH -- Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin today announced the most recent 2008 statistics for North Carolina fires and fire fatalities ... NCDOI.com Press Release 1 OSFM Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:00:00 EST